In this section I will cover the role of the practitioner in working to provide children with a healthy lifestyle and how it is really important of making sure that the child gets everything they need to stay healthy.
There are many different ways the practitioner can promote a healthy lifestyle and this can be done through:
Activities children can do to understand and gain a healthy lifestyle:
Reading books
Role play- farm shop
Physical games- running, riding bikes and scooters and soft play area
Spending time washing hands after going to the toilet, before eating or after sneezing
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Provide information about a range of factors which may affect children’s health and well-being at differing times in their lives.
Factors that affect the health of children:
Poverty
Stress
Pollution
Housing
Unsafe environments
Low birth weight
Smoking
Drug and alcohol misuse during pregnancy
Lifestyle
Families and community
Illness and disability
Most of these factors have a negative factor on a child's health but some of them can have a positive effect. For example a child's lifestyle can make a huge difference to his health. If a child is eating a well-balanced diet then the child's health would be a good one because he is getting all the nutrients and vitamins he needs. And it a child is very active the child can benefit from this because as they grow older the exercise they have done while they are young will enable them to do a lot more things when they are older.
E4. Include evidence of the effects of these factors on children’s health.
These are the consequences that the factors stated in E3 that affect a child’s health:
Smoking
Smoking during pregnancy can result in the child being smaller, having a low birth weight and the child is more likely to suffer from asthma when they are older or at a very young age.
Poor